R. Todd Lazenby | Founding Partner
Todd Lazenby is the founder of Victory Partners and Royal Ascot Partners, bringing over 30 years of private equity, investment banking, and corporate finance experience to the firm. He has held increasing senior-level positions in start-ups, mid-sized, and Fortune 500 companies. Todd has built an investment and advisory firm catering to wealthy families and family offices that have made control investments in companies comprising over $300 million in enterprise value and have arranged and overseen in excess of $3.0 billion in capital markets and mergers & acquisitions transactions.
Prior to founding Victory Partners, Todd was the Managing Partner of Summit Capital Partners, LLC in Los Angeles, then the managing partner of WP Capital Partners, L.P. in Dallas, both merchant banking firms representing middle-market companies on a national basis. Previously, Todd was a founding principal of Affinity Finance, LLC in San Francisco, where he was instrumental in developing a joint venture with a leading California bank and developing the company’s asset securitization platform. Prior to forming Affinity, Todd held the position of Group Senior Vice President at Wells Fargo Bank in San Francisco, initially managing a technology re-engineering initiative for the consumer credit group, then managing the bank’s national home equity, student lending, and unsecured consumer lending divisions. Todd most recently served as Chairman and CEO of Maryland Proton Treatment Holdings, LLC, and Maryland Proton Treatment Center, LLC, respectively.
Todd is currently the Chairman & President of the Promise Fund of Florida, and serves on the board of directors of Worthy Financial, Inc. He is also a member of the Florida State University College of Business Board of Trustees. He has previously served on several company and charity boards, including Undaunted Holdings, LLC (Intrepid Power Boats), Optimium Heath, LLC, KwikBoost, LLC, Maui Girl & Co., Inc., Varaha Systems, LLC, TXP Corporation (TXP: NASDAQ), FOH, Inc. (Fredricks of Hollywood), HomeBanc Inc., CMG Bancorp, Inc., Automated Data Sciences, Inc., Marshmallow Fun Co., LLC, Morningstar Energy, LLC, Zyvex Technologies, LLC and InTelegy Corp. Todd is a former member of the Dallas Chapter of YEO (Young Entrepreneurs Organization) and a former member of the Baylor University Executive MBA Committee. In addition, Todd serves on the board of directors of NFTE (Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship) and served on the board of directors for the March of Dimes. He has been an adjunct professor and guest lecturer at SMU’s Cox School of Business, TCU’s Neeley School of Business, Baylor’s Hankamer School of Business, Loyola University’s Sellinger School of Business, Johns Hopkins’ Carey School of Business, and the University of Baltimore’s Merrick School of Business.
Achievements
Master of Science in Finance, Stanford University
Master of Business Administration, Florida State University
Bachelor of Science in Communications, Florida State University